Alrune Rod (formed 1968) was a
Danish
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People
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psychedelic rock
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band.
Alrune Rod appeared in the 1971
concert film
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Early history
The ...
''
Skæve Dage I Thy The film whose title loosely translates as ''Stoned Days in Thy'' documents
Thylejren, the first rock
music festival in Denmark which took place in
Thy in 1970. Alrune Rod played at the festival, sometimes called the Danish
Woodstock
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, alongside contemporaries in the Danish music scene at the time to an audience of 30,000.
Rock musician and
musicologist
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Julian Cope
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has described their first two albums as:
"sounding somewhere between early Pink Floyd, an emptier Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come, and PAWN HEARTS-period Van Der Graaf Generator"
Band members
Original band members
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Leif Roden (Nielsen), vocals, bass and guitar
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Flemming Giese Rasmussen, guitar
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Kurt "Pastor" Ziegler Simonsen, organ
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Claus From, drums
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Leif Roden (b 3 March 1948, d 3 May 2010) in
Copenhagen
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(vocals, electric bass, guitar, lyrics, composition)
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Ole Poulsen
Ole Poulsen (born 16 December 1941) is a retired Danish sailor
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(b 20 December 1950) in Copenhagen (electric guitar, guitar, vocals, mandolin, lyrics, composition)
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Tom Lunden (b 16 March 1950) in Copenhagen (piano, organ, acc, vocals, composition)
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Karsten Høst (b 14 August 1948) in
Frederiksberg
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(drums, percussion)
*
Mikael Miller (b 8 October 1952) in
Greve (el-g, g, cl, fl, v, ss, vo, komp).
Discography
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Tæl Aldrig Imorgen Med (single) (1968,
sonet
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)
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Alrunes Rod (1969, sonet)
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Hej Du (1970, sonet)
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Alrune Rock (1971, sonet)
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Spredt For Vinden (1972, mandragora - reissued 2002,
Karma Music)
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4-vejs (1974, mandragora - reissued 2002, Karma Music)
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Tatuba Tapes (1975, mandragora)
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Alrunen Live i Aalborg (2002,
Ohm records)
External links
Official site(in
Danish
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
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)
References
Danish rock music groups
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